THE TOP TEN ALBUMS OF 2024
So. How're you holding up? It feels weird to write Year End lists now, but I have the data, I have my feelings down in digital ink, and if you have the time, I'd like to share them. Joy as an act of resistance and whatnot. The way this works is I list off all the albums I heard this year and separate them into tiers: The Bottom Ten (which I uploaded in October), the Meh tier, the Okay tier, the Pretty Good tier, Honorable Mentions and The Top Ten. Normally, I do a Top Twenty, but 2024 was what I was expecting 2023 to be: a year off. A year that, despite a LOT of big music events happening, wound up kinda flat. This was still a good year for music, though. The songs list expanded to a Top Forty for the first time. Its just that albums mostly all fell into the same level of quality. But think about this: Everything in the Top Ten, Honorable Mention and Pretty Good tiers are albums I want to revisit (and have for the most part). ...
